INTRODUCING.....MISS MELAYNA LYNN LOFTIN!!!

Our beautiful baby Melayna is here!!!! She came into the world Friday Aug. 14th at 6:44pm and weighed 8 lbs 13 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long! The delivery went awesome and we are home and recovering. More details to come.......

Thanks to all who were there and supported us, we truly appreciate you all!

Only Ry can tell you why he turned this into delivery / toga party.......

We call this birth control!

My best friend Julie and my little sis Laurie!

minutes after she was delivered!

It's crazy the amount of love that you feel after you deliver your child together!

Dr. D with the rest of who we call "team birth"!

Melayna and Mama!!!

I love my daughters!

We are a happy family!

Officially a family of five now!

Little punkin

This really says it all for Bella boo, silly!!!

Sportin her baby bling!

proud big sis!

Fun with the Belly!

Tonight I asked the fam if they wanted to paint the belly before it's gone and it was too much fun, so I had to share!

JUST TWO DAYS LEFT TO WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BIG CHANGES FOR THE LOFTINS........

Well cat's out of the bag........we are officially Utah Bound. Ryan has accepted an offer to relocate our family to Utah and open up the state for business by October 1st. So between now and then we will be very busy selling our home, having a baby, looking for a new home, getting in as many Duck games as we can, blessing our baby and spending as much time with Oregon friends and family as we can. So much to do.........

His primary responsibility in the beginning will be to find and hire a sales team, which in this poor economy wouldn't seem like a big task with unemployment being what it is but believe it or not it IS. So much so that finding a replacement for one of his guys in Portland has his stress level at a critical point and his Ulcerative Colitis is rearing it's ugly head again. Anyway, I have faith that he will be blessed with a huge pool of super star candidates ready to get to work in Utah!

This is a huge change for our family as neither one of us has ever lived there, visited yes but never lived. Ryan has been dying to get out there to be closer to his brothers and sisters and their families and now the time has finally come and he is thrilled. I am excited for the opportunity for our girls to be able to spend time with their cousins and remember how much I enjoyed that from my childhood! We are hoping it will lend us a better chance to get to the temple more often and let's face it the shopping will be a bit of an improvement from what sweet lil Albany has had to offer us. We will miss all our friends and family dearly and I say that tearfully.

In the meantime ......we are still waiting for our baby girl to make her arrival and can't wait to meet her!!! I'm praying and hoping that she gets here soon. If she is not here within this next week she will be evicted via induction on Friday the 14th!!!

Here are some of the ways we have been biding our time waiting for this kiddo!

Welcoming new friends into the world!

Discovering the fish that is Alyssa
Painting fingers

.........and toes!

So pinkalicious!!!

Taking a ride down the slide at the cool pool!!

And finding new homes for these adorable lil friends!

What a busy month......

Our June was filled with all kinds of craziness which I appreciate, as it makes time fly by being pregnant!

We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary!! I am soooooo so grateful I am married to this man!

1st their was the princess pool, which the girls loved until...... Alyssa decided our cat Tink should go swimming with them too

Then we threw a shower for our dear friend Lisa to celebrate her upcoming arrival!!!!

Here's the lineup beginning with Lisa (due 7/3), Jess (due 7/17), Alicia (due 8/5) and Me (due 8/16) all within just about two weeks of each other and yes it has been fun!!!

Then our cat Tink had kittens, 5 of them, thanks cat. I guess she was just throwin another thing in the mix to keep me busy till the baby comes. Kittens are ready for new homes 8/2 by the way for anyone interested!!

Here is one of our kitten handler / trainer Bella boo with Snow White in the pocket of her snuggie.


Then Lyssa Lou started T-Ball which has been a ton of fun and she loves it!
Swing batta batta s-a-wing!!!
Little studmuffin! She's dying to get her hands or mit on the ball!

And last but certainly not least my hard working man got to make a long awaited purchase! And wouldn't you know it it's already in the shop.......yikes.

Happy Father's Day

I love celebrating my husband on this day as Ryan is to me, everything that a father embodies. It takes a special kind of man to raise all girls and Ry is soooo great with our girls and such a good sport to go along with all the pink, and frills, and dress up, and things that come with having little ladies. It chokes me up thinking of how much our little girls love and adore their daddy!!!!!

Way to go Auntie!

My baby sister Laurie graduated from high school this weekend! I am so very proud of her and know it has not been easy but she did it and it was an awesome night. We know that great things are on the horizon for her and can't wait to take her to Disneyland at the end of the year!

My beautiful lil sis in her in her post ceremony afterglow!

Laur's friend Missy, our bro Billy, Auntie, Ry, Bella and Lys

Auntie, and My Mom

Thanking heaven she is done at last!!!!

Best Friends!

I'm so happy to be there! So proud of my sis

Sweet Daddy and his girl

graduating class of 09 (295 in the class)
Hip Hip Hooray!!!!! my bro asked me how do you find your cap after this?

Memorial Day Trip to the Zoo!!!

Every year we daydream about camping over Memorial Day weekend and then when it comes down to it..........we look for last minute campsites online and come up empty handed (nothing the 3 p's wouldn't fix :), seems we'd learn our lesson by now. I think we must still be traumitized from the last actual reservations we made for Memorial day weeked probably 3 years ago, we were so excited to go and proud of our pre-planning only for it to pour down rain that whole weekend, so we've been a little skeptical ever since then.

Anywho......we always end up having a nice weekend! This year we went to the ZOO!, cheered on our friends participating in a triathalon and Ryan and Joel made their annual run down "The Waterloo rapid". It was a beautiful fun weekend, oh and my camera broke and my sweet husband allowed me to splurge on a new one (not without me being accused of breaking the other one on purpose, which I did not do)nonetheless he hooked me up and I am grateful!

Bella boo and Lyssa Lou with the resident Zoo bears!

I love the upside down sunglasses and the cheeser grin on Lys! Her upside down glasses get more comments than you would believe, but that's how she likes em best! Everyone needs a "Line Leader" and that's just what Lys was complete with her map and all!

Bella and Daddy! She likes to pull his hair on this ride!

Alyssa showing us Gloria the Hippo!

This was awesome, this little guy curled up in this little box! Too cute.
Me and the girlies watching the bird show, which made me extremely uncomfortable as A) I do not like birds and B) I promise a stupid bird dive bombed my head and almost mamed me.
Ry and Joel goin into the rapid
Whoaaaa nellie, just another day at the office!

Close-ups of the girls! Had fun trying out the new camera!!!